[fredbeene]

Originally Posted by md40022

When my team is batting, I get picked off at random times regardless of the situation. More often than not, I am NOT stealing. The computer throws over to first base anyway though, and boom - he gets me. Often times this will be with a runner on base who is of zero threat to steal. In the 3 pickoffs that occurred in that 2 inning segment that I posted about, 2 of the runners were guys who were absolutely no threat at all to steal; Devers and Juan Soto. The other guy was Yelich, who is a little bit of a threat, but that was me picking off the computer and being that I did successfully pick him off - I don't know if he was actually planning on stealing or not.

All I can say is there doesn't seem to be much pattern to it. I've had catchers who couldn't run at all get picked off before and I obviously didn't give them the steal command prior to them being picked off. It happens often enough that I cringe every time the computer throws to 1st base, because I know his success rate is far too high.

As far as gathering more data for you guys.... I understand why you're asking, but I'm just not doing that. Because of issues like this I am just not nearly as dedicated to this game as some others are and because I'm not all that dedicated to it, I'm not investing any additional time into it --- it's not my job. Being that so many people sim out games and this is not something that is easily tracked through box scores, that's why it's not being made a bigger deal than it is.... and the patch a while back did significantly help, but there's still an issue.

While the example I gave yesterday COULD be one of those things that "just happens", the fact that the best IRL comparison we could draw to it involved an infielder playing catcher and one of the 3 pickoffs being on a broken stolen base attempt, I think that kind of goes to prove those things DON'T "just happen" - so being that it did happen in the game, I don't know what more data is needed to satisfy your colleague ----- but regardless, I don't get paid to sit there and track game logs. So if this is just one of the little disappointing glitches w/ OOTP23 than so be it. It doesn't completely cripple the game, but it can be a bit annoying when your slow and fat catcher who is no threat to run is getting picked off in crucial situations.

I would be more upset that you ACTUALLy cannot run a report on the pickoff stats.....so we all have to speculate and waste time wondering
23 versions and we still don't have it....or granslams or xyz